Re: [O] Stable releases

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 01:56:43PM -1000, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> 
> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi Rasmus,
> >
> > Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> One data point: I can absolutely not be bothered using anything that is
> >> not at least in contrib.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity: don't you use the Emacs package system at all?
> >
> > I used not to use it, but thanks to recent improvements, I find it
> > quite good now -- and I would not mind using Org packages from there.
> 
> The package system appears to be quite popular in the Org mode world.

The summary you provide below is very impressive, thanks for compiling
it. It would be a nice addition to worg, with a date attached to it of
course!  It's bound to go stale at some point :-p.

However I would like to point out, the documentation for many of these
extensions is rather spreadout and thin.  So I agree with Rasmus, as in,
contrib is much more accessible, but I think it also encourages authors
to contribute documentation on worg (after all it's in the official
repository).  That said, I'm not sure why some of the extensions, like
ox-reveal, are _not_ in contrib.  AFAIU, it's quite mature.

Cheers,


> There are a dozen ob-* languages distributed by the package system
> vs. eight in contrib.  There are fifteen ox-* exporters available
> through the package system vs. eleven in contrib.
> 
> Download statistics from Melpa indicate several of the packages are
> quite popular.  ox-reveal has been downloaded more than 4,000 times, and
> ox-pandoc and ox-gfm (Github flavored markup) more than 1,000 times.
> The babel languages are less popular, but ob-browser (for html),
> ob-ipython, ob-mongo, and ob-sml have all been downloaded more than 300
> times.
> 
> Melpa has 91 org-* packages. The packages evil-org, org-bullets, and
> org-fstree have all been downloaded more than 10,000 times.  There are
> ten others with more than 1,000 downloads.

-- 
Suvayu

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